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1973 US postage stamp. Love is a pop art image by American artist Robert Indiana.It consists of the letters L and O over the letters V and E in bold Didone type; the O is slanted sideways so that its oblong negative space creates a line leading to the V.
The first serigraph/silk screen of LOVE was printed as part of an exhibition poster for Stable Gallery in 1966 on the occasion of Indiana's show dedicated to his LOVE series . [37] In 1973, the United States Postal Service commissioned a stamp design by Indiana and released the eight-cent LOVE stamp in advance of Valentine's Day.
After a cancer diagnosis in the early 1970s, she entered an extremely prolific period in her career, including the Rainbow Swash design on the LNG storage tank in Boston, and the 1985 version of the United States Postal Service's special Love stamp. [7] In recent years, Corita has gained increased recognition for her role in the pop art ...
In January 1973, the USPS began to issue "Love" stamps for use on Valentine's Day and other special occasions such as weddings, birthdays, anniversaries and letters to loved ones. [55] The first such issue was an 8 cents stamp that the Postal Service initially titled "Special Stamp for Someone Special". [56]
She collaborated with Fili for two other stamp designs: Sealed with Love (2013), [30] and Skywriting (2015). [31] In 2015 she created her first solo stamp for the US Postal Service, a love stamp titled Forever Hearts. [32] Hische teaches workshops about lettering and creative business practices online and in-person at her studio. [33]
Saul Mandel (January 21, 1926 – August 14, 2011) [1] was an illustrator, animator and graphic designer in the advertising field. [2] He was most known for designing the Jolly Green Giant, the 1986 Puppy Love postage stamp, and a poster for The Incredible, Edible Egg marketing campaign.
LOVE sculpture Arts Park in New Castle, Indiana In New York City, New York In John F. Kennedy Plaza, Philadelphia with Museum of Art in the far background At the Scottsdale, Arizona Civic Center. Robert Indiana's pop art Love design was originally produced as a print for a Museum of Modern Art Christmas card in 1965.
The Americana series was the first definitive issue since that of 1922-31 not to include any fractional-cent values; instead, it presented the first decimal values assigned to U. S. Postage stamps, which appeared on coil stamps denominated between 3.1 cents and 8.4 cents, produced for the use of bulk mailers and other businesses.